Adder's-tongue (n.) A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. |
Adder's-tongue (n.) The yellow dogtooth violet. |
Bird's-tongue (n.) The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). |
Bone (n.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine |
Bone (n.) One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton |
Bone (n.) Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. |
Bone (n.) Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music. |
Bone (n.) Dice. |
Bone (n.) Whalebone |
Bone (n.) Fig.: The framework of anything. |
Bone (v. t.) To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. |
Bone (v. t.) To put whalebone into |
Bone (v. t.) To fertilize with bone. |
Bone (v. t.) To steal |
Bone (v. t.) To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying. |
Cannon bone () See Canon Bone. |
Canon bone () The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse. |
Collar bone () The clavicle. |
Cuttle bone () The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc. |
Deer's-tongue (n.) A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla. |
Dog's-tongue (n.) Hound's-tongue. |
Double-tongue (n.) Deceit |
Earth-tongue (n.) A fungus of the genus Geoglossum. |
Hart-tongue (n.) A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America. |
Hart-tongue (n.) A West Indian fern, the Polypodium Phyllitidis of Linnaeus. It is also found in Florida. |
Hound's-tongue (n.) A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue. |
Hyoid (a.) Having the form of an arch, or of the Greek letter upsilon [/]. |
Hyoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself. |
Hyoid (n.) The hyoid bone. |
Lingual (a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue |
Lingual (n.) A consonant sound formed by the aid of the tongue |
Long-tongue (n.) The wryneck. |
Rewel bone () An obsolete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or polished bone. |
Rowel bone () See rewel bone. |
Ruell bone () See rewel bone. |
Snake's-tongue (n.) Same as Adder's-tongue. |
Tongue (n.) an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch. |
Tongue (n.) The power of articulate utterance |
Tongue (n.) Discourse |
Tongue (n.) Honorable discourse |
Tongue (n.) A language |
Tongue (n.) Speech |
Tongue (n.) A people having a distinct language. |
Tongue (n.) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk. |
Tongue (n.) The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly. |
Tongue (n.) The lingua of an insect. |
Tongue (n.) Any small sole. |
Tongue (n.) That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form. |
Tongue (n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture |
Tongue (n.) A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove. |